André Natal
Member Of Technical Staff at Vapi
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndré Natal is a seasoned software engineer and Member of Technical Staff based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over two decades of experience and 13 years of focused enterprise-level practice in AI, ML, and real-time systems. He has led production-grade projects across industries—from streaming media and telecoms to finance and oil & gas—building low-latency distributed architectures, voice AI, and scalable cloud platforms. Recent roles include principal ML engineering positions where he built RAG pipelines, fine-tuned foundation models, and shipped vector search and conversational AI solutions. At Mozilla he helped deliver flagship speech and WebRTC products (Firefox Voice, Deep Speech, Common Voice) and contributed open-source work integrating speech interfaces and HTTPS/network tooling for projects like WebThings Gateway and Appmaker. He blends deep systems, networking, and embedded expertise with hands-on ML modeling and speech tech, comfortable moving from microcontrollers and WebRTC to LLM fine-tuning. Known for solving complex, high-compliance problems, he pairs research-driven approaches with pragmatic production engineering.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Anhembi MorumbiDropout, ENGINEERING, Dropout, ENGINEERING at FEI - Faculdade de Engenharia IndustrialSCPD, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, SCPD, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
web-speech-api10
expressjs10
api-design10
ui-components10
polymer10
http10
user-interface10
html10
rest-api10
nodejs10
json9
css9
websocket8
dockers7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
WebThingsIO/gateway
Apr 2017 - Jul 2018
WebThings Gateway - a self-hosted web application for monitoring and controlling a building over the web
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 52 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:André implemented features related to subdomain registration, SSL certificate management, and HTTPS redirection for the WebThings Gateway. They integrated settings pages with both frontend and backend components. The user also worked on speech command integration, including setting up the speech interface and integrating it with the API, enhancing user interaction through voice control. Additionally, they contributed to the project's infrastructure by configuring HTTPS and modifying configurations for better network handling.
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mozilla-appmaker/appmaker
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Appmaker was an exploration in making app authoring available to non-developers
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:André primarily contributed to the development of a voice recognition component within the Appmaker project. Their work involved implementing the HTML structure, JavaScript logic, and event handling for the component. They integrated the Web Speech API and Polymer to create interactive voice input features, including methods for starting, stopping, and setting grammars for speech recognition, ultimately enhancing the user interface with voice interaction capabilities.
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